immediatism

[ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uh m]

noun U.S. History.

a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.

Origin of immediatism

First recorded in 1815–25; immediate + -ism

Related formsim·me·di·a·tist, noun

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Examples from the Web for immediatism

Historical Examples of immediatism

These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.
The Negro and the Nation
George S. Merriam
Their doctrine of immediatism—if we may invent a new term—is always one and the same, and always has been.
Abolition a Sedition
Geo. W. Donohue
Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.
William Lloyd Garrison
Archibald H. Grimke